Washing-machine



(No Model.) S HAKE WASHING MACHINE.

No. 366316. Patented July 12, 1887. 4

WW vvases I v FFiCFt SIMON HAKE, OF DES MOINES, IOWA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,216, dated July 12,1887.

Application filed January 7, 1887. Serial No. 223,697. (No model.)

To aZZ 10. 1.0121, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, SIMON HAKE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and aresident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State ofIowa, have invented an Improved WVashing- Machine, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My object is to facilitate washing clothing; and my invention consistsin the construction and combination of a reciprocating duplex rubbingand pressing device and a duplex fixed wash-board with a tub and twotreadles, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, andillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a topview of my machine; Fig. 2, a sideview having parts broken away; Fig.

3, an inside view of one of the ends of the tub taken through the line wx of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a face view of the partition in the tub, takenthrough the line z z of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, an end view of the pressingand rubbing device detached from the tub.

A A are the wooden ends of a tub. They are semicircular in shape andprovided with a wash-board surface, 13,011 their inside faces, whichsurface may be fluted wood, corrugated sheet metal, or any othersuitable material.

C O are side pieces, of wood, fixed to the edges of the ends at theirtop corners.

D is a shcet'metal bottom, fixed to the edges of the ends and sides. Thetub thus constructed has legs attached in any suitable way to support itin an elevated and level position.

A is a partition, corresponding in shape with the ends A, fixed in thecenter of the tub to brace the sides and bottom and to increase therubbing and pressing surface of the machine. It has a wash-board surfaceon each side and perforations through which water can pass.'

G G are the ends of the sliding and vibrating pressing and rubbingdevice. They conform in shape with the ends of the tub, areperforated,and have wash-board surfaces on their opposite sides.

h are cross-pieces fixed to their tops to reenforce them, and J is a barrigidly fixed to their tops andcenters to connect them.

K represents a handle fixed to the pressing and rubbing device thusconstructed. A. triangular-shaped opening, m, in the partition and aslot extending down and intersecting the opening allow the connectingbar J to enter and slide and vibrate in the opening. A rod, it, passedthrough perforations in the vertical portions of the handle K, and fixedto the ends of the tub suspends the pressing and rubbing device in thetub in such a manner that it can slide horizontally to press and vibratelaterally to rub clothing,

0 O are treadles pivoted to a block, r, and connected with the oppositeends of the pressing and rubbing device, by means of cords s, in such amanner that the device can be read ily moved in opposite directions byalternately pressing down the treadles.

s are directing-pulleys, fixed. to the ends of the tub in line withperforations in the same ends, in such a manner that the ropes s willpass over the pulleys, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and then extendhorizontally to the press ing and rubbing device handle K to which theyare fastened.

In the practical use of my machine, that is divided into fourcompartments, by means of the partition and the ends of the pressing andrubbing device I place articles in one or more, or all of them, andsoapsuds in the tub, and then tread on the treadles alternately to pressthe articles and at the same time Vibrate the handle to rub them betweenand against the wash-board surfaces of the ends of the tub and the endsof the pressing and rubbing dev1cc.

I am aware that two oscillating rubbing boards have been combined withawash-tub and a treadle in such a manner that articles could be placedbetween the boards and the boards then pressed together by means of thetreadle, and at the same time oscillated by means of thei r handles, sothat the operator could simultane ously use his foot to press and hishands for rubbing; but my manner of constructing a rubbing device withfour faces that come in con tact with articles to be washed, and two ofthem at the same time, and combining it with a tub having a fixedpartition and two treadles, so that the rubber can be moved in oppositedirections by means of the treadles to press two different lots ofarticles, at the same time the said articles in two different toocompartments are rubbed by means of an oscillating motion. of the rubberproduced by the operators hands, is novel and greatly advantageous, inthat many more articles can be washed thereby in a given time and withless labor.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a washing-machine, the duplex rubbing andpressing device composed of two boards, G, the bar J, and a handle, K,in combination with a tub having a fixed duplex wash-board, A andmechanism for moving the said duplex rubbing device in oppositedirections relative to said fixed duplex washboard and the ends of thetub, for the purposes stated.

2. An improved washing-machine, comprising a tub having parallel sidesand parallel ends, a duplex rubbing and pressing device composed of twoend pieces adapted. to slide horizontally within the tub and in oppositedirections relative to the ends of the tub and rigidly connected with aframe or bar that re tains them apart in a vertical and parallelposition, and a handle fixed thereto to extend vertically, a rod fixedto the ends of the tub to suspend and pivot said duplex rubbing andpressing device within the tub, a duplex washboard fixed across thecenter of the tub, and two treadles for moving the duplex rubbing andpressing device in opposite directions relative to the ends of the tub,and the duplex fixed wash-board to rub and press clothingsiinultaneously at the end and at the center of the tub, in the mannerset forth.

SIMON HAKE.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. ORWIG, THOMAS G. Omvro.

